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Facebook's ambitious cryptocurrency project, Libra, has been facing a lot of heat in Europe since its announcement in June. Now, according to Reuters, the French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, doesn’t want it to operate in the EU, as he feels it's unclear exactly how the digital ...

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Facebook Dating is finally here. The social network launched the feature today in the US and 19 other countries, after announcing it last year at its F8 developer conference.
The feature will be available to users above the age of 18 and, for those eligible, will appear as a new ...

Another month, another Facebook data breach. As reported by TechCrunch, security researcher Sanyam Jain was able to locate an online database containing phone numbers linked to user IDs for over 419 million Facebook users.
While linking phone numbers to user IDs is bad enough, ...

Facebook today announced it'd be rolling out its facial recognition settings to everyone -- and that and that it'd be turned off by default for new users. Anyone who doesn't already have this setting will be able to notified and asked if they want to turn it on.
The new Face Recognition ...

Facebook is finally testing a much-needed change to its social network - hiding Like counts on posts. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong posted this development with screenshots on Twitter.
Wong's post suggests the social network is testing this feature in its Android app. However, ...

Anyone else think giving Facebook literal access to our brains is a catastrophically stupid idea?
If you missed it: Facebook's building a brain computer interface (BCI). In the company's words, the gadget will be:
A non-invasive, wearable device that lets people type by simply ...